Re: fedora only for US users ?

[Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas Mailhot laPoste net>]

Pekka Savola wrote:

> > I think that now the fedora project is more open to community, it's time to 
> > really open it to all languages.
>
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html says about Fedore Core:
>
> Users: Early adopters, enthusiasts, developers 
>
> How big a percentage of the above-mentioned user group does not speak 
> English?
>
> Note that it's about being able to read/speak/write English, it has 
> nothing to do with "US" or not.
>
> My personal belief is that most of the internationalization efforts are of
> very low priority for that particular user group.

And you are very wrong.
A lot of people can live with english. That doesn't mean they would not 
jump on a localized version if available. Didn't you notice the efforts 
an ubber-geek like Alan Cox spent on Welsh lately ? Yet he can live with 
english too.

Non native langage apps are a pain just like non AA fonts were or XFree 
approximative drivers for new gfx cards are. Do not underestimate the 
impact of little pains - a project like Gnome saw the HiG light after 
accumulating for years "low priority" problems people "could live with".

Polish counts.

--
Nicolas Mailhot